In
1988, Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci 52, Princeton President
Harold Shapiro *64, Secretary of State George Shultz 42, and
Secretary of the Treasury James Baker 52 posed next to a plaque
of James Madison 1771 at a luncheon in the State Department dining
room celebrating the first time in U.S. history that the three ranking
cabinet officers were graduates of the same university. Princetons
tradition of service continues today, as Mitch Daniels 71,
director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Donald Rumsfeld
54, secretary of defense, serve in President George W. Bushs
cabinet.